Harich v. Wainwright, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, Et Al.’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
19
cited by 19 later decisions
4
cited 4 times by the Supreme Court
2
states following
December 1998
most recently cited
12 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · Adams v. Wainwright · Jones v. Smith · 484 So. 2d 1237 - Harich v. Wainwright
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I can only lament this Court's own special contribution to the arbitrariness and freakishness that continues to characterize the implementation of the death penalty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Jones v. Smith
How this case has been treated — in progress
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